Lending money at interest ; the act of putting out money to usury.
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FOENUS
Lat. In the civil law . Interest on money; the lending of money on interest
FOESA
In old records. Grass; herbage. 2 Mon. Angl. 9066; Cowell.
FOETICIDE
In medical jurisprudence . Destruction of the feet us; the act by whichcriminal abortion is produced. 1 Beck, Med Jur. 288; Guy, Med. Jur. 133.
FOETURA
In the civil law . The produce of animals, and the fruit of other property,which are acquired to the owner of such animals and property by virtue of his rightBowyer, […]
FOG
In maritime law . Any atmospheric condition (including not only fog properly socalled, but also mist or falling snow) which thickens the air, obstructs the view, and soIncreases the perils […]
FOGAGIUM
In old English law . Fog- gage or fog; a kind of rank grass of lategrowth, and not eaten in summer. Spelman; Cowell.
FOI
In French feudal law. Faith; fealty. Guyot, Inst Feod. c. 2.
FOIL
A material that is thinner than .15mm. Anything thicker is film. Anything thicker than .25 mm is a sheet.
FOINESUN
In old English law . The fawning of deer. Spelman.
FOIRFAULT
In old Scotch law . To forfeit 1 How. State Tr. 927.
FOIRTHOCHT
In old Scotch law . Forethought; premeditated. 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pL 1, p. 90
FOITERERS
Vagabonds. Blount.
FOLC-GEMOTE
In Saxon law. A general assembly of the people in a town or shire.It appears to have had judicial functions of a limited nature, and also to havedischarged political offices, […]
FOLC-MOTE
A general assembly of tbe people, under the Saxons. See FOLC-GEMOTE .
FOLC-RIGHT
The common right of all the people. 1 Bl. Comm. 05. 67.The jus commune , or common law, mentioned in the laws of King Edward the Elder,declaring the same equal […]
FOLD-COURSE
In English law . Land to which the sole right of folding the cattle ofothers is appurtenant . Sometimes it means merely such right of folding. The right offolding on […]
FOLDAGE
A privilege possessed in some places by the lord of a manor, which consistsin the right of having his tenant’s sheep to feed on his fields, so as to manure […]
FOLDING BOX
A collapsed carton that must be set up to fill.
FOLGARII
Menial servants; followers. Bract.
FOLGERE
In old English law . A freeman, who has no house or dwelling of his own,but is the follower or retainer of another, (heorthfacst,) for whom he performs certainpredial services.
FOLIO
1. A leaf. In the ancient lawbooks it was the custom to number the leaves,instead of the pages; hence a folio would include both sides of the leaf, or two […]
FOLK-LAND; FOLK-MOTE
See FOLC-LAND; FOLC-GEMOTE .
FOLLOW
To conform to, comply with, or be fixed or determined by; as in the expressions”costs follow the event of the suit,” “the situs of personal property followsthat of the owner,” […]
FOLLOW ON
An order that needs a repeat supply of goods that are the same as the original.